I’m sooo excited about tonight! Well, to be fair, I get excited and giggly every time I know there’s an Ugly Betty episode coming up. How will Betty crash the wedding? What vile repartee will Wilhelmina, Mark, and Amanda banter about? How will Betty handle the anguish of dating Henry? It’s the telenovella without the Spanish! And totally gay! And authentic!
The last episode brought up some memories that I had wanted to write down. Last month, I joined my BF’s gay flag football tournament in New York. I made it clear that I was only “on the team” to accomplish a sole purpose, i.e. totally slut it up and attend a musical every day (3 days). Mission accomplished (I got in the film The Good Night as well). So, I saw Avenue Q (Friday evening), The Drowsy Chaperone (Saturday matinee), and The Color Purple (Sunday matinee). Collectively, it was one of the most succulent, wonderful things this poor little Midwestern homo could do. More on each soon…
WordPress 2.3.1 Update
I did it! I updated WordPress without wanting to kill myself. The thing that I learned though is FatCow (my hosting site) won’t let me directly upload gzip files directly to my site and it appears that their ZIP utility doesn’t seem to decompress the package into the WordPress directory. No biggie, 7 minutes w/FireFTP from a decompressed package on my desktop and… Voila! New, more stable WordPress (fingers crossed). And in playing with WordPress, I thought I’d change up the design to something a little more regal, Royale 1.0. Très Chic!
Ugly Betty
Anyhow, while charting out my day with FreeMind, a mind-mapping tool, that geeks who worship Getting Things Done play with, I watched Ugly Betty and I need to tell everyone, “WATCH THE SHOW! It will make you smile, laugh, cry and somehow make your day a little brighter!” Tanner Stransky – EW.com said it very well, I love Marc and Amanda’s vile antics and cuts, but I admire that the writers appear not to be throwing away an opportunity to examine more critically the hysterical obsession gay men have with their bodies and their image. It will be awesome to see what they do with budding romance between a paunchy photographer like Cliff and an extremely superficial fashion assistant like Marc. I also want to shout props to the writers for being so deft at balancing all the characters. I just keep thinking, “Wow, what a great crew!”
Lost
So, BF & I have a new obsession. It was the sort of thing where I had not returned movies to Blockbuster.com in forever, finally did, needed to do ironing and then, “So, what’s with Lost?”, the ever-skeptical BF asks. “Um, friends liked it, recommended it and I have work to do…” And he didn’t leave and now we keep watching and now we have something like 60-some-odd episodes to go! Well, I’ll have more to say, but I’m going to wait to finish with Season 1 to critique.